feignasse
\fɛ.ɲas\
The verdict
“feignasse” is uncommon French (frequency #54,584 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,584
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est fainéant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feignasse · feignasse · French
feignasse · rank #54,584 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,584
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FCO
Nearest frequency peer: FCO (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « feignasse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fantoche
fantoche
45,420 corpus weight
- fatals
fatals
45,419 corpus weight
- FCO
FCO
45,418 corpus weight
- feignasse
feignasse
45,417 corpus weight
- Fernande
Fernande
45,415 corpus weight
- ferrant
ferrant
45,414 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feignasse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feignasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛ.ɲas\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feignasse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feignasse is uncommon French at frequency #54,584 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɛ.ɲas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est fainéant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for feignasse in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is feignasse, spelled F-E-I-G-N-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est fainéant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how feignasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une étrange langueur s’était coulée dans mes membres, une espèce de fatalité feignasse me collait la cervelle aux os du crâne… Je me suis installé dans mon destin pourri.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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